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Tax dollars at work

Can it really be true that the Department of Homeland Security has been sponsoring research into what it describes as "Brain Music" — "a form of neurotraining ... that uses music created in
advance from listeners’ own brain waves to help them deal with common
ailments like insomnia, fatigue, and headaches stemming from stressful
environments"? When I first read the story, on AC Douglas's blog,
I assumed it was an April Fool's joke that had got lost in the
shuffle, but it seems to be the real deal. You can listen to an MP3 of
a brain-wave composition
that is supposed to engender a state of "alertness," and which a DHS
operative describes as having a "Mozart sound." To me, it sounds like
something fit for Dick Cheney's torture chamber. Plus, Alvin Lucier did it better in 1965.